Rob Reynolds presented on using the Chocolatey package manager with Puppet on Windows. Chocolatey is like apt-get or yum but for Windows, allowing installation of programs and their versions to be managed. The Chocolatey module enables its use as a package provider in Puppet. While the built-in Windows package provider requires no setup, Chocolatey provides benefits like simple packaging and allowing version upgrades. Reynolds demonstrated using Chocolatey and Vagrant to configure a Windows system with Puppet.

1. Puppet on Windows: Now
You’re Getting Chocolatey!
Rob Reynolds
Software Engineer | Puppet Labs
rob@puppetlabs.com
@ferventcoder
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Who am I?
•Developer at Puppet Labs / started July 1
•Creator of Chocolatey
•DevOps interest for 2+ yrs or 7+ yrs
•Long time .NET Dev
•Learning Ruby
•Also still learning Puppet
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Why are you here?
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Is it...
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Is it...
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Or is it...
?
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Welcome!
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What is Chocolatey?
•Package manager for Windows
•Kind of like yum or apt-get, but for Windows
•Package provider for Puppet on Windows
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Where does it fit into
Puppet?
•Chocolatey (choco) has a package provider
•Module on forge (rismoney/chocolatey)
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Use the built in windows
package provider?
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Does this replace built in
Windows pkg provider?
•Official answer at this time: no
•Unofficial answer at this time: no
•Built in provider requires no addtl setup
•Choco requires PowerShell 2+ and .NET
Framework 4.0
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Why would I use
Chocolatey provider then?
•Versionable / Upgradeable
•Community / Packaging Provider Focus
•Packaging is simple
•Most Windows come w/PowerShell 2, so all
you need is .NET 4.0
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Future of Chocolatey on
Puppet
•This is still an open discussion
•Chocolatey will continually evolve
•Security / trust focus
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Anatomy of a provider
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Build Packages?
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Text
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ChocolateyInstall.ps1
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DEMO
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Vagrant
FTW?!
•Installed .Net 4.0 / Chocolatey
•Installed Puppet & Modules
•Used chocolatey provider to
install git, posh-git and putty
•Updated git to latest version
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Questions?
rob@puppetlabs.com
@ferventcoder
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